Objective To explore the diagnosis and treatment for spontaneous rhexis hemorrhage of liver cancer. Methods Clinical data of thirty patients who suffered from spontaneous rhexis hemorrhage of liver cancer from January 1995 to March 2009 were collected and analyzed retrospectively. Results Twenty-six cases were stanched by surgical therapy, in which 14 cases underwent liver cancer resection, 10 cases underwent bleeding transfixion and hepatic artery ligation (or intubation), and 2 cases underwent omentum stuff transfixion. Four cases died one week after surgery, one died after 15 d, 9 cases died 1 to 3 months after operation, 5 cases survived after 4 to 6 months, 3 cases survived after 7 to 12 months, and in 4 cases survival time was longer than 12 months (in which one patient’s survival time was 16 months, one was 5 years and two patients were still alive with survival time of 3 and 13 years respectively). Four patiens went through the non-surgical therapy and survival time was 3 to 14 d. Conclusion The spontaneous rhexis hemorrhage of the liver cancer is not the telephase of the liver cancer. Early diagnosis and operation can stanch bleeding effectively. The surgical therapy is better than the non-surgical therapy. Resection of liver neoplasms in time can raise long-term survival time.
ObjectiveTo evaluate the safety and short-term outcome of laparoscopic total mesorectal excision (TME) for the middle-lower rectal cancer in municipal hospital.MethodsThe pathological data of 94 patients with middle-lower rectal cancer (49 cases underwent laparoscopic TME, while 45 cases received open TME), who treated in The First People’s Hospital of Ziyang from Jan. 2015 to Jun. 2017, were retrospectively collected and analyzed.ResultsTwo patients (4.1%) in laparoscopy group were converted to open surgery. Compared with the laparotomy group, the laparoscopic group had significantly less volume of intraoperative bleeding, shorter abdominal incision, earlier time to the first flatus and liquid diet, and lower rate of 30-day postoperative complication (P<0.05), but had longer operative time (P=0.033). While there were no significant difference on postoperative stay, the specimen length, distal margin, and number of harvested lymph nodes between the 2 groups (P>0.05).ConclusionLaparoscopic TME is a feasible, safe, and minimally invasive technique for middle-lower rectal cancer, and produce more favourable short-term outcome than open surgery in municipal hospital.
Objective To study the effect of alpha fetoprotein-tumor burden score (ATS) on the long-term prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after resection. MethodsThe data of 2 907 patients with HCC who underwent first hepatectomy from West China Hospital of Sichuan University, West China Ziyang Hospital/Ziyang Central Hospital, The First People’s Hospital of Neijiang, West China Yibin Hospital/The Second People’s Hospital of Yibin between 2015 and 2022, were retrospectively analyzed. The X-tile software was used to calculate the optimal truncation of the ATS score. Cox proportional hazard regression model was used to explore risk factors affecting postoperative recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) in HCC patients, respectively. ResultsAll patients were followed-up with a median of 37 months, 1 364 cases (46.9%, the recurrence time was 1–89 months after surgery) of them experienced recurrence and 841 cases (29.1%) died (the death time was 1–88 months after surgery). The 1-, 2- and 3-year OS rates were 89.3%, 81.4% and 75.9%, respectively. The 1-, 2- and 3-year RFS rates were 76.0%, 64.3% and 57.2%, respectively. The 5-year RFS rate of HCC patients with low-, medium-, and high-ATS scores were 56.4%, 45.0% and 27.2%, respectively, and patients with low ATS score had better RFS (χ2=264.747, P<0.001). The 5-year OS rate of HCC patients with low-, medium-, and high- ATS scores were 78.0%, 59.8% and 38.8%, respectively, and patients with low-ATS score had better OS (χ2=372.685, P<0.001). Multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression model suggested that, in condition of adjusting gender, age, liver function, microvascular invasion, tumor differentiation, and BCLC stage, medium-ATS score [RR=1.375, 95%CI (1.209, 1.564), P=0.005] and high-ATS score [RR=2.048, 95%CI (1.764, 2.377), P<0.001] were risk factors for postoperative RFS; the medium-ATS score [RR=1.779, 95%CI (1.499, 2.112), P<0.001] and high ATS score [RR=2.676, 95%CI (2.211, 3.239), P<0.001] were also risk factors affecting postoperative OS. ConclusionATS score can predict the prognosis of HCC patients after resection, patients with high ATS scores had a higher incidence of postoperative recurrence and mortality.